Labour MP Peter Prinsley criticised more than a thousand House of Lords amendments to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill as delay tactics and urged Commons leaders to consider extending the parliamentary session to prevent the measure from falling.
A study reports chemical traces of gifbol plant toxins on 60,000-year-old arrowheads from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, which researchers describe as the oldest direct evidence of arrow poison; similar compounds were also found on 250-year-old arrowheads held in Swedish collections.
White House aides told Axios that President Trump reported Marjorie Taylor Greene to the Secret Service after he feared she had leaked the location of his dinner; Greene denies the allegation and it is unclear whether the Secret Service opened an official investigation.
Scotland's First Minister John Swinney told the BBC he is anxious that his teenage son Matthew could one day be drawn into a war, and he cited the invasion of Ukraine and a weakening of the post‑Second World War rules-based international order.
A comprehensive review of more than 450,000 participants finds the APOE gene’s E3 and E4 variants together may account for an estimated 72–93% of Alzheimer’s cases, and that about 45% of all dementia cases link to APOE.
Reliance Industries is seeking U.S. approval to resume purchases of Venezuelan crude, and its representatives are in talks with the U.S. State and Treasury departments.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said she does not believe the U.S. would use military force to seize Greenland and urged a stronger NATO presence in the Arctic to address U.S. security concerns.
A man has been jailed after a court found he coerced a woman into repeated group sexual encounters over decades, and police say they will investigate whether further offences were committed.
Two Chinese warships and one Iranian vessel were seen off Cape Town ahead of a January 9–16 naval exercise hosted by South Africa, which officials said would involve BRICS navies and expected Russian participation.
A December 2025 memorandum led to the removal of six vaccines from the US childhood schedule on 5 January 2026, while the MMR vaccine remains scheduled at 12 months; measles cases in the US have risen above 2,000 amid declining MMR coverage.
